Reef By Steele
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WE GOT THE REEF
NEW AND EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS
At Reef By Steele, we are always looking for ways to improve and ensure we offer our customers the greatest benefit for every dollar they invest in their tanks with us. This is why we sieve at 50 Micron ensuring that every bottle of Copepods we sell has 3-4 times the Pods that are visible to the eye. It is the reason we harvest our phytoplankton fresh each and every week and mix equal parts to maintain the diversity in the nutritional profile and its effectiveness in nutrient control. This commitment to quality is why our phytoplankton comes straight from the culture vessels, mixed in sterilized collection vessels, aerated to eliminate settling until packaged for shipment, ensuring it is as fresh as possible.
NEW SWAG
We are thrilled to announce that we have expanded our SWAG by adding Logoed Bic Pens and expanded our selection of unique reefing stickers (including an actual customers fish). We include one in every order, so order regularly to collect all 9.\
Reef Stickers
Custom holographic reefing stickers. Collect them all. One free will be randomly added to all boxes. Sorry but we cannot track who gets what. If you have a favorite, purchase it here. Approx 3"x2". More designs to come.
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WHAT WE LEARNED AT RAP NY
Earlier this year I made a last-minute decision to visit Reef-A-Palooza to see what all the hype was about. What an amazing journey that was, and after discussing with @Ocean_Queenie we made the decision and commitment to attend RAP Anaheim, so please stop in and meet us if you are fortunate enough to be able to attend, as we would love to meet you. That trip opened our eyes to new potential opportunities we can implement to offer greater variety and value to our customers, one such was the addition of the Brightwell Aquatics line to our offering. We will also have announcements that we are planning to make live from Reef-A-Palooza in September, Visit our booth on Saturday and be among the first to hear it. Check out our thread from NY.
A WEEKEND AT REEF-A-PALOOZA
So we made the decision on Tuesday that I should come check out RAP NY to see if it lives up to all the hoopla for palooza. What I can say at this point is absolutely. One of my first stops was at the booth the greatest reefing forum in the galaxy. www.reef2reef.com Having a great time...
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NEW AUTOMATIC PHYTOPLANKTON DOSING SYSTEM
Our commitment to our customers is a driving force behind our business and a major reason that we receive such positive feedback from our customers. Because we listen, our business has expanded and grown. Earlier this year I had a customer ask me a question that I had been considering for some time. “Can you auto dose phytoplankton?”, because he travels and didn’t want to lose the consistent dosing and lose the progress that he had achieved. And now we have an answer, YES! There are intricate challenges to auto dosing phytoplankton. Doesn’t phytoplankton need to be refrigerated? No, live phytoplankton can last 2-3 weeks at room temperature (we recommend not over 10 days), refrigeration does extend the storage capacity to up to 3 months industry standard (we recommend 4-6 weeks as we love our phyto fresh). Doesn’t phytoplankton settle, yes that is why you need to shake stored phytoplankton at least every three days so the settling doesn’t smother and kill the cells trapped below. This means the phyto must be agitated to keep it in suspension so that the dosage stays consistent. My first thought was to aerate it like I do with our harvest, but that also promotes evaporation. As this customer @ebgclef and I discussed these challenges he suggested a magnetic stirrer. In his system he uses the stirrer under a dosing chamber he already had on hand, a drawback is that the chamber is square, so some settling occurs in the corners. We have alleviated this with a round dosing chamber. With this setup, he has lowered his nitrates from mid 30’s to 1-2 ppm and does see them rise if he runs out of phyto between shipments. Eugene dilutes our phyto 3 to 1 with saltwater, to be able to run the doser all day to avoid long term setting in the lines, but it can be dosed at full strength as well. Click here for more detailed information.
Phytoplankton Automatic Dosing System
WE GOT THE REEF Our commitment to our customers is a driving force behind our business and a major reason that we receive such positive feedback from our customers. Because we listen our business has expanded and grown. Earlier this year I had a customer ask me a question that I had been...
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PHYTO BUFFET EXTREME
Our introduction of our Phyto Buffet Extreme is a result of an R2R customer’s questions, which lead to our research and allows us to concentrate our phytoplankton in the safest and least detrimental method possible. This product is harvested and refrigerated for 3 days, we then remove the clear water from the strains that settle, mix and blend providing us again with an all-natural product with approximately twice the cell count as our standard. While it retains the same characteristics of our original, it does allow a customer to dose more days from a smaller portion or provide stronger coverage for systems with higher needs (tanks with heavy filter feeding organisms and NPS corals).
NEW PHYTO BUFFET CONCENTRATE
FINAL DAY!! 20% OFF LIVE PRODUCT WE GOT THE REEF!! Introducing PHYTO BUFFET EXTREME our latest NEW PRODUCT, this is our same live phytoplankton as in our PHYTO BUFFET, but we are now concentrating it to twice the density of our original formula without affecting the integrity of the...
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DOUBLE AND EXTREME COPEPOD BUFFETS
We spent a good amount of time as discussed previously on developing and purifying our Harpa pods. We used to use them as a promotional tool, but were asked why we didn’t have any in any of our selections except as a single species, so we Developed our Majestic, Energetic, and Gigantic Pod Buffets where we concentrate the pods by using ½ the water and then we double the pods per container by filling ½ way and then adding an equally high density of Harpa Pods together. Once we started harvesting at double density, we determined that we could also offer full bottles of double density pods in our original mixes as well. We call these the Pod Buffet Extremes.
-https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/double-density-pods.1056922/
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